Abstract
Fake education certificates or fake degree is one of the major concerns in higher education. This fraud can be minimized if there is a tamper-proof and confidential registry of certificates wherein not one but multiple certified authorities verifies and stores the issued certificate in immutable repositories with proper privacy maintained. Secondly, there should be a mechanism for retrieving the authentic certificate without much cost and time. Blockchain is an immutable, shared, distributed ledger without the control of a single centralized authority that fits very well for the discussed use case. The proposed work, PrivateCertChain, has implemented the idea for university having multiple affiliated colleges, by deploying and verifying digitally signed e-certificate on Ethereum Blockchain. Multiple affiliated colleges can serve as the miners for verifying the signature of the issuer. For privacy concerns, the content of the certificate will be hashed and this hashed value will be stored in Blockchain along with the roll number of the certificate holder. Once the transaction hash is generated, it will be converted to QR code. The QR code is shared with the respective owner of the certificate and it will also serve as the credential of the certificate. Thus, anyone having the credential can view the authentic certificate which is kept on the blockchain, by scanning QR through the dedicated application designed for verification. The proposed solution can be a foolproof mechanism against all frauds as it guards for integrity, confidentiality, authenticity, and privacy of educational certificates.
Highlights
In the education sector, certificate plays a crucial role as it is an official tag to determine one’s knowledge
Owing to growing concerns over use of fraudulent certificates in the education sector we have proposed a privacy-preserving e-Certificate repository using the benefits of blockchain
The key or the derived key can be used to encrypt subsequent communications using a symmetric key cipher. They are widely used in blockchain technology as they are computationally superior as compared to other crypto algorithms and shorter keys are required for blockchain platform which is supported in ECDSA, without comprising the security
Summary
Certificate plays a crucial role as it is an official tag to determine one’s knowledge. Blockchain is an immutable, secured, shared and distributed, ledger and has facilated the way of recording and tracking resources It has offered a solution against the possibility of attack to centralized systems as there is no centralized authority which saves or controls the data. It is an emerging technology, helpful in protecting resources that can be tangible (e.g., money, houses, cars, lands) or intangible (e.g. copyrights, digital documents, and intellectual property rights) [1]. It allows authorized stakeholders to verify the data in a timely and cost-effective manner
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